Last week [1]NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver as their first public build in the R595 release branch. The NVIDIA R595 Linux driver is bringing a number of Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, DRI3 v1.2 support, and a variety of other improvements. Benchmarking the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux driver the past few days on GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" have been showing some nice incremental performance improvements over the current NVIDIA 590 driver stable series.

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In today's article providing an initial look at the NVIDIA R595 Linux driver performance is comparing the current NVIDIA 590.48.01 stable Linux driver compared to last week's NVIDIA 595.45.04 beta driver. The top-end NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphic card was used for this round of benchmarking.

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For making this round of benchmarking all the more interesting was using the [4]Dell UltraSharp U5226KW 52-inch 6K monitor. This beautiful and absolutely massive display was used for stressing the RTX 5090 at both 4K and 6K resolutions.

This NVIDIA 590 stable vs. 595 beta Linux driver comparison was done across OpenGL and Vulkan graphics plus also NVIDIA GPU compute benchmarks.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-595.45.04-Linux-Beta

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=nvidia-595-linux&image=nvidia_595_linux_1_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=nvidia-595-linux&image=nvidia_595_linux_2_lrg

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/review/dell-ultrasharp-u5223kw